"My dad painted the iconic cover for Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung,’ and it’s haunted him ever since" ~music rock.progressive Article 4771 words 21 votes
James Joyce’s grandson and the death of the stubborn literary executor ~books literature Article 1023 words 7 votes
The Swedish dairy lobby is fighting alternative milks, like Oatly, as if they're an existential threat ~food drinks Article 1550 words 13 votes
We should absolutely find out the Queen is dead from a guy named Gibbo ~tech social media Article 1570 words 8 votes
The magical thinking of guys who love logic ~life.men Article 3149 words, published Feb 15 2019 43 votes
A good place: Watching plants grow, fast and slow ~hobbies gardening Article 1041 words, published Jul 3 2019 4 votes
Slender Man for Boomers: The offshoots of the QAnon conspiracy theory have gone to even darker places. ~life Article 1405 words 12 votes
My religious OCD convinced me God would never love me ~humanities religion Article 2492 words 6 votes
What’s left of liberalism?: Why the left and right both seem to agree that liberalism has failed us. ~humanities Article 2394 words 13 votes
Sans serif, sans progressive policies: How campaign branding came to be a way for candidates to signal their progressive bona fides without actually having them. ~design typography Article 1492 words 7 votes
Secrets and lies at Guantanamo Bay: Listening devices, FBI informants, and gag orders… these are just some of the ways that the US is mishandling classified information in the Al Qaeda trials ~misc Article 2139 words 5 votes
If PornHub wants to support a cause, start with sex worker rights ~life nsfw work Article 1291 words 12 votes
You can’t beat an unwinnable game, but you can break it! – There is no end to simulators like ‘SimCity’ and ‘Roller Coaster Tycoon’. There is only terrifying perfection ~games Article 1496 words 12 votes
Playdate, the most exciting device in indie gaming, is also the most depressing: The recently announced system shows that indie games can be just as myopic and male-centered as the medium’s mainstream ~games Article 1953 words 8 votes
Behind the scenes with the hacktivists who took on Microsoft and the FBI ~tech microsoft Article 1882 words 4 votes
The cancer capital of America: Eastern Kentucky is poor, remote, and inadequately serviced, and those factors have led to alarming rates of cancer in the area ~health healthcare Article 2937 words 7 votes
‘Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle’: A new, sociological investigation of how videogames and gaming fit into contemporary capitalism ~books reviews Article 2496 words 6 votes
Taking mushrooms for depression cured me of my atheism: Psilocybin not only eased my depression, it showed me a new way to live. ~life Article 3162 words 22 votes
The aesthetic case for fake meat: Eating vegan meat substitutes is more than the ethical choice, it’s the delicious one. ~food meat Article 1843 words 12 votes
Black metal has a real Nazi problem (but it has little to do with one infamous figure) ~music metal.black Article 1607 words 6 votes
I’m a North Carolina public school teacher. Here’s why I’m walking out today. ~life education work Article 2674 words 6 votes
Nadine Gordimer wrote furiously, in every sense. The Nobel Prize-winning South African writer cared very much how people think, and not at all what people thought of her. ~books Article 1532 words 7 votes
Goths for Trump - Inside the unholy alliance of goth culture and radical right politics ~life Article 1679 words 8 votes
Apple can delete purchased movies from your library without telling you ~tech apple Article 670 words 31 votes
Scientists race to find who is pumping dangerous gas CFC-11 (depletes ozone and a greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere ~enviro pollution.air Article 1342 words 14 votes
The painter behind Jethro Tull's Aqualung cover is still haunted by its success ~music rock.progressive Article 4804 words 5 votes